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carlson1 wrote:I store all cases in my closet. I do not have any "safe queens." If I don't shoot them ever so often I try and find them a good home.

I have several of the pistol racks below for my two safes.

I've been mulling this over the past couple of days and am coming around to something this instead of those under the shelf rod things. I might even try my hand at a home made one of wood. Although, I still like the idea of incorporating some sort of rod. There's one or two ideas floating around my head that I might try.

Syntyr wrote:While I don't have your problem as I only have 4 pistols, clearly not enough, I do have a solution. Tell your wife that you will only get 1 more safe AND THAT'S IT!!! NO MORE! When she relents buy this one!

I think if I got that safe I should make sure there's also enough room in there for me to sleep.

TexasTornado wrote:

Jusme wrote:I feel your pain, with my last long gun purchase, I have no more room for them in my safe. That has not quelled my desire for more, but has given Mrs. Jusme more leverage for veto power. Now I am looking at larger safes, but I for some reason,SWMBO thinks it will lead to more firearms being purchased.
As for the title of the thread I don't belive there is such a thing.
In fact, if I someday win the lottery, my new house will have an area bigger than my present house for nothing going but gun and ammo storage. But for now I have to figure out a way to sneak in a larger safe.

Does Mrs. Jusme own firearms? Does she store them with yours?

My ammo and AR get stored in the safe with dads. I only get 1 shelf (why don't we have a crying face to put here?) So I totally get the space limitations. My pistols, I only have 2...so far...almost never go in the safe.

Will this one do?

goose wrote:

C-dub wrote:I do have a couple of the silicon gun socks for a couple rifles, but those aren't the issue. I still have plenty of space for several more rifles. It's the handguns I'm concerned with.

I started thinking about looking for a different door insert with different compartments or one that was entirely velcro or molle, so that I could put whatever I wanted up on it however I'd like and could be re-arranged as needed.

I'm also thinking about those things that slide onto a shelf and the handgun attaches below the shelf by sliding the barrel onto a rod. Does anyone have those? How well do those work? Does the handgun come off the rod easily without pulling the rod thing off the shelf with it? I wonder if the rack like TAM linked might be better.

I have used these. They work best for larger caliber pistols with longer barrels. My G17 or 1911 are super easy to get on and off. The LCP and G43 are trickier to line up the barrel and rod. I might even call the LCP a pain. I like them a lot for the bigger pistols. They are tolerable but not easy for the smaller ones. The hangers don't pull off of the shelf but occasionally will pull back from their starting point. I don't know that I would want my go to safe pistol hanging on one. In the heat of battle with pressures and tensions you could possibly bring the hanger out with the pistol.

I would have them strictly for storage. My go to pistol is on my hip, not in the safe and I don't keep any of them in the safe loaded. I do have some loaded magazines in the safe, but they are not in any of the guns.

Do those rods come is sizes small enough for .22 handguns? I now have three and the shortest one is a 4.5 inch barrel.

4copas wrote:http://www.texaschlforum.com/viewtopic. ... 32#p642413

Couple post down Mr. Cotton has a very good idea.

Excellent! I tried searching for that thread, but couldn't get the search right to find it. TYVM

I do have a couple of the silicon gun socks for a couple rifles, but those aren't the issue. I still have plenty of space for several more rifles. It's the handguns I'm concerned with.

I started thinking about looking for a different door insert with different compartments or one that was entirely velcro or molle, so that I could put whatever I wanted up on it however I'd like and could be re-arranged as needed.

I'm also thinking about those things that slide onto a shelf and the handgun attaches below the shelf by sliding the barrel onto a rod. Does anyone have those? How well do those work? Does the handgun come off the rod easily without pulling the rod thing off the shelf with it? I wonder if the rack like TAM linked might be better.

After getting TxLobo's Mark III Hunter yesterday upon returning home to put it away until I can get out to shoot it, I realized I'm approaching having a minor problem. I only have four spots on the door for handguns, so some are there, while the rest are in their cases on the shelves. They are starting to take up quite a bit of space and I'm sure there's a better more efficient way of doing this.

I've had more handguns than spots on the door for a little while now, but now I'm also running out of space for the ones in their cases. I'm starting to look at other ways of storing them in the safe not in their cases. There are several options to continue keeping handguns on the door or also to align them on or hanging under shelves.

1. What do some of ya'll do?
2. Do you even keep the cases in the safe?

BTW, I picked up a great handgun from TxLobo and got to meet a great guy. I'm glad I didn't wait to see if anyone else was going to snap that up. I can't wait to get it out to the range.